AFS Distributes Market Reports & Webinars


AFS Corporate Sponsors meeting

The AFS Corporate Sponsors Committee distributed Market Landscape Reports at the 2011 Corporate Sponsors meeting at the AFS Fall Conference held October 17-20 in Houston, Texas. The reports begin the AFS process of providing market intelligence and information to Corporate Sponsors this year and going forward. The three reports distributed at the Fall Conference Corporate Sponsors meeting were:

• Unconventional Fuels
• Membrane Technology for Liquid and Gas Filtration
• U.S. Market for Residential Water Treatment

The AFS has further worked out a special arrangement where Corporate Sponsors receive a discount for any existing Business Communication Company (BCC) reports if purchased through the AFS. This effort is part of a fulfillment of Corporate Sponsors requests to the AFS for market intelligence.

Webinars
In addition to the Market Landscape Reports, the Corporate Sponsors requested additional education for all employees. Accordingly, the first Webinar is now available for Corporate Sponsors. The first four-hour, four-module Webinar is titled, Filtration & Separations Media Market, a comprehensive study and technical review of the eight most common media, their applications, use, market size, market trends, characteristics, and more. Additional Webinars, exclusive to Corporate Sponsors are planned throughout 2012. Sponsors will now be able to use AFS Webinars to provide in-house training to all new company employees and journeymen alike.

Jobs Board
The AFS will continue to provide the Job Board at no cost to Corporate Sponsors. Sponsors can list open employee positions on the AFS website. Anyone visiting the AFS website will have full access and can apply for a position directly to the Corporate Sponsor company listing the open position.

Cost of Sponsorship
The AFS will continue to maintain the same low cost of membership for manufacturing companies interested in participating as an AFS Corporate Sponsor in 2012:

• Less than $5 million in sales - $1,500/year
• $5 to 10 million in sales - $2,000/year
• $10 million and above in sales - $2,500/year
• Distributor Sponsorships are available at the rate of $1,250/year.